Re: time to create the GDB 8.1.x branch?

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

Joel,

On 11/20/2017 07:15 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I think it is time to start thinking about the next release (8.1),
> as it has been 5.5 months since we release 8.0, and 7 months
> since we created the 8.0.x branch!
> 
> I've created the following wiki page for keeping track of this release
> cycle:
> 
>     https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDB_8.1_Release
> 
> Looking at the gdb/NEWS file, it shows a fair number of enhancements.
> Also, outside of one GDB PR that was marked for 8.1 but is no longer
> critical IMO, we have no PR active targetting 8.1.
> 
> Are there any changes that would be worth waiting for before we branch
> 8.1? If not, I plan on creating the branch next Monday (Nov 27th).

Can we consider delaying the branching some more time?  E.g., at least
a week?  I'm not certain I'll be able to address all of Keith's comments
on the wildmatching series this week (and I'd very much like to get it in
because the sooner we have that in a release, the sooner we can move
gdb to a C++ namespace), and also, a lot of folks in the US are off for
thanksgiving this week (including Keith :-).  There are a few other pending
patches that I'd like to try to get in (patches that have already been posted
but are waiting for review, e.g., DWARF5 indexes, Keith's inline
breakpoint and ptype patches, etc.), and next Monday is just looking too
tight.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves